Needless deaths after operations - Patients are still dying unnecessarily after routine operations, according to the third Report of the National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative...

Death rate plunge: not from screening - Health officials who have been congratulating their extensive mammogram screening programmes as the reason for the sudden drop in breast cancer deaths...

Air pollution control reduces death rate - Irish researchers have found that measures to control air pollution have dramatically reduced the death rate from respiratory and cardiovascular disea...

Caesarean: It triples the death rate in newborns - Babies born by Caesarean section are three times more likely to die soon afterwards than those born naturally, a new study has discovered.

Emergency care: - It's so bad that it kills a third of patients - The health service is seriously overstretched. Patients with chronic conditions that require routine care tend to get the worst of it, so perhaps the...

Cancer: Death rate drops 60 per cent if you have someone to talk to - Yet more evidence of a link between the body and mind comes in a new study of elderly people with severe depression.

Stroke treatment trebles death rate - Doctors are as in the dark as ever about treating stroke victims after new research has revealed that the preferred method actually kills more than it...

Death or disability? - It's not just aspirin which has come under fire recently. Other standard treatments such as thrombolysis are also being questioned after trials revea...